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The Velveteen Ocelot

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1. The thing that's always bugged me

Reply to MineralMan (Original post)

Tue Apr 9, 2019, 03:01 PM

Apr 2019

is when there's a disaster of some kind, and a survivor thanks God for saving them - saying (or at least implying) that God especially wanted them to live. So what about all the other people who died? Didn't God give a crap about them or their families? I've always thought that kind of thinking was bizarre, not to mention arrogant.

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